Grace Fucking Jones

We're The Pet Shop Boys-Robbie Williams with the Pet Shop Boys

Ah, ok...this is fun. While we wait for England's unsung treasure to release another record, this will do. This is the best Robbie Williams has sounded in awhile. It is also a very fun dance record. Lyrically its a bit odd...it sounds like he's talking about a relationship and then the chorus hits (hint: it's the title). So it is both fun and funny. This is better than the "I'm In Love With A German Film Star" cover that "features" them. I can't hear them on it....and i was so psyched that they were covering this song (they don't...it's a female vocalist and it seems kinda pointless to me) because I think its an unsung classic of the 80's.

Epilepsy Is Dancing-Antony & the Johnsons

Apparently the second single off the latest record (I am sure it'll be huge LOL). Yet another truly beautiful song--yet another song that words will not do justice to. His Nina Simone-Jeff Buckley voice is stunning as usual....nobody does torch like this. And when he sings "Cut me in quadrants, leave me in corners" your heart will break. Fucking genius. The title alone...I love the way you read it and you get a jolt...it really is all a matter of perspective, no?

Corporate Cannibal-Grace Jones

I feel this is an accurate tie in with both the Pet Shop Boys and Antony. How do you remain relevant when you are 60ish and haven't released a record in about 20 years? Um, release a single that Massive Attack would be happy to produce (did they?). In any event, lyrically, this is perfect for Grace (which pop music has never really known what to do with)....I mean "man eating machine" for sure...who else can pull this shit off? She's a legend, much of it self-created underneath the radar. In any event, its a pretty amazing song and the video is suitably terrifying. Lyrically its also both timely and scary...the title says its all.

Frankly, Madonna could learn so much from Grace. Enough with the children's books and England and "Miles Away" bullshit. And that loser Guy. Candy Shop indeed...the most impressive thing about her latest is that she didn't already release it...I had to check...didn't she have a candy song already (She didn't....its the last sexual metaphor she hasn't appropriated). Stop trying to talk about the war (oh lord, when she raps the word "latte" in "American Life"....words cannot do justice to the travesty) and start channeling Nina Simone and Black warrior princesses and bisexual Bowie and Josephine Baker and start giving us something interesting. Cause Grace Jones did...

Legend....nothing I can write can say it better than this: nobody ever did what she did, nobody ever does. Genius